Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:40:41 -0800 From: Russell Jackson <raj@csub.edu> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgdb vs modular xorg Message-ID: <20061211224040.GE35811@cserv65.csub.edu> In-Reply-To: <457DB398.4020605@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061211180621.GA68824@cserv65.csub.edu> <457DAAE7.6030206@voicenet.com> <1165864770.1177.34.camel@localhost> <457DB398.4020605@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:38:00PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Phillip Neumann wrote: > > This problem is mostly visible when having Gnome/xorg modular installed, > > as if so, a buch of ports are getting installed. > > > > I think the ports/package managment in FreeBSD is not very scalable in > > this sense. This has nothing to do with xorg. > > > > Maybe this motivates some change in the port system. Working with > > ~20'000 software is not very easy. > > I reported this problem on ports@ about a week ago. The recent change > to portupgrade drastically slowed down pkgdb. My post even included a > hackaround. sem@ said he'd investigate, but never got around to it, I > guess. > I wasn't trying to imply that xorg caused it directly; I just didn't notice the problem until after the number of packages exploded as an indirect consequence of moving to modular xorg. I have only a very minimal set of gnome related packages installed since I don't use the gnome desktop. At any rate, I guess this is a known problem and not becaused I hosed my pkgdb :-P. I'll look in freebsd-ports for Joe's post. Thanks, -- Russell A. Jackson <raj@csub.edu> Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield
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